Saturday interview + Museums

When Tristram Hunt stepped down as an MP in order to lead the V&A, critics were quick to ask what qualified him for the role. Of course he’s qualified, he argues – and no, he won’t answer political questions

In her first interview since being appointed director of the world’s most popular contemporary art gallery, Frances Morris talks about its major new expansion, the morality of sponsorship, and her vision for the institution’s future

Academic posts at Oxford and Cambridge, a stint as head of an NHS trust, and now chair of the science museum: whatever Jeffrey’s travails, Dame Mary Archer knows she’s been lucky. Here she talks about women in science, museum cuts – and the husband-shaped elephant in the room

When Neil MacGregor took over as director of the British Museum it was in debt and out of fashion. He made it seem fun again, and reversed its fortunes. Now he has new plans for the objects in his care